Is it true that macs dont g..

Macs can get viruses but the usually get fewer because computer hackers write most viruses for the Microsoft operating systems.

Computer hackers like to affect as many computers as possible and since Mac's market share is only a fraction of Microsoft's, the hackers usually do not waste time writing viruses for Macs.

They get far fewer viri. This is true for 2 reasons:

1: Most viri are operating system dependent. Windows machines make up more than 90% of the computers out there. If you are writing a virus to be nasty, you can be nastier to more people by writing it for Windows than for any other OS. It takes time to write them, so why not spend your time doing the most damage?

2: The architecture of Windows and the Windows document types (i.e. Word and Excel docs) particularly lend themselves to viri. Or perhaps another way of putting it is that the architecture of Mac and other operating systems are more difficult to code viri for. The differences used to be as fundamental as different processes ran in the same memory space under Windows so they can overwrite each other's memory.

Ultimately, Windows has grown by aquisition and made such major changes that the code just hasn't had enough q/a time. MacOS is based on FreeBSD and the FreeBSD kernel has been opensource for a long time. Consequently, hackers have found the problems early on and they have been fixed.